The Great Neck Library will hold an election for three seats on its Board of Trustees and two seats on its nominating committee Oct. 28. Three current members have chosen not to run for re-election.
The three four-year seats on the Board of Trustees up for election are those of Kathleen Gold, Josephine Mairzadeh and Aliza Reicher. Gold and Mairzadeh are not seeking re-election.
Gold and Mairzadeh were both elected to the board in 2020.
Running for Gold’s seat is Reicher, who was appointed to the board in January to fulfill the vacancy left by former trustee Donald Panetta. Reicher was selected by the library’s Nominating Committee to run for the seat.
Reicher is a bankruptcy attorney and legal writer and editor at Thomson Reuters Practical Law. She received a B.A. in political science from Barnard College, Columbia University, and a J.D. from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.
She ran in the library’s October election on a platform advocating against book banning and censorship and called for tighter finances, developing more programs for seniors and youth, and hiring more staff.
Reicher lost in the Oct. 30 election to newly joined trustee Chayim Mahgerefteh. She received 450 votes, the second-highest number but fell short of Mahgerefteh’s 1,163 votes.
Running for Mairzadeh’s seat is Brachah Goykadosh. Goykadosh was selected by the library’s Nominating Committee for the seat.
Two individuals are running for Reicher’s seat. The library’s Nominating Committee selected candidate Matt Klein, while Neal Hakimi is an independently running candidate.
Two seats are also up for election on the library’s Nominating Committee.
The two-year seats are for the ones currently occupied by Steve Jacob and Sabine Margolis.
Jacob is not running for re-election, and Inna Amir will be running for his seat. The Nominating Committee selected Amir as a candidate.
Margolis is running for re-election and was nominated as a candidate by the Nominating Committee. Independent candidate Joshua Ishal is also running for Margolis’ seat.
All five individuals elected in October will start their term in January.
The library election will be held from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. on Oct. 28.
There will be three polling locations.
Residents of zip codes 11023, 11024 and 11363 can vote at the Main Library at 159 Bayview Ave. in Great Neck.
Residents of zip codes 11020, 11030, 11040, and 11362 can vote at the Parkville Library Branch at 10 Campbell St., New Hyde Park.
Residents of zip code 11021 can vote at the Great Neck Plaza Village Hall, located at 2 Gussack Plaza in Great Neck.
A Meet the Candidates night will be held at 7 p.m. on Oct. 1 in the Main Library Community Room.
